God places the first man and woman (Adam and Eve) in his Garden of Eden, from whence they are expelled; the first murder follows, and Gods decision to destroy the world and save only the righteous Noah and his sons; a new humanity then descends from these and spreads throughout the world, but although the new world is

Where did Adam and Eve start?

the Garden of Eden The Book of Genesis puts Adam and Eve together in the Garden of Eden, but geneticists version of the duo — the ancestors to whom the Y chromosomes and mitochondrial DNA of todays humans can be traced — were thought to have lived tens of thousands of years apart.